The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation - Concepts, Methods and Applications

This book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen's Capability Approach and participatory forms of development - especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up. It shows how the capability approach and the participatory movement can complement and reinforce each other helping to ensure that democratic principles are respected and become the foundation for sustainable human development. The Capability Approach provides guiding principles for protecting the transformative roots of participation (safeguarding ownership, accountability and empowerment), while participation delivers vital methods for making the Capability Approach operational. Divided into three overlapping parts that focus on concepts, methods and applications, this work draws on diverse fieldwork experiences to unpack power relations, address adaptive preferences, explore individual and collective agency, consider new partnerships for development, and develop innovative concepts.

Product details

• Authors: D. Clark, D. Biggeri Clark
• Assisted by: Alexandre Apsan Frediani (Editor), M. Biggeri (Editor), Mari Biggeri (Editor), Mario Biggeri (Editor), D. Clark (Editor), David Alexander Clark (Editor), A. Frediani (Editor), Alexandre Apsan Frediani (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781137352293
• ISBN: 978-1-137-35229-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Springer Palgrave Macmillan; Rethinking International Development series; Rethinking International Development series
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Internationale Beziehungen, B, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Economic Policy, International Relations, Poverty, Development Aid, Political Science and International Studies, Economic development, Political Economy, Development policy, International Political Economy, Development Studies, Development Theory, International Political Economy’